09: Red Herrings - Killing Eve Ep7

12/28/19 • 34 min

Inciting Incident

Parul: You could say that the Inciting Incident is when Eve is ordered back to London, but I actually think it’s when they find out that Nadia has been killed and they are back at square one, and I think that Eve is only ordered back after that fact is discovered.

Progressive Complications/ Turning Point

Parul:

Progressive Complications:

Eve doesn’t trust Carolyn anymore (nor do the viewers)
Eve is shown the filthy letters between Constantin and Caroline
Eve goes to visit Anna and finds out Anna’s husband was killed and castrated
Eve finds Villanelle’s passport and money

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Eve can’t a hold of her husband
Villanelle is rescued
Villanelle kills her new handler
Villanelle confronts Constantin

Turning Point:

Parul: Eve discovers that Carolyn met Villanelle in prison

Melanie: I think it’s when Carolyn tells Eve she can take her job away from her.

Randall: I think that Parul’s Turning Point is a good one, but it’s a Turning Point for a Crisis in the next episode, and there is another Turning Point within this episode that has a Crisis, Climax, and Resolution.

Parul: I think Mel’s Turning Point is a Progressive Complication.

Randall: I think it’s a Turning Point because of the fact that Eve disobeys a direct order from Carolyn, it builds on the character of Eve. Jack Ryan is a good example - if there is no Turning Point in the episode, then the episode is boring.

Inciting Incident

Progressive Complications/ Turning Point

Parul:

Progressive Complications:

Eve doesn’t trust Carolyn anymore (nor do the viewers)
Eve is shown the filthy letters between Constantin and Caroline
Eve goes to visit Anna and finds out Anna’s husband was killed and castrated
Eve finds Villanelle’s passport and money

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Eve can’t a hold of her husband
Villanelle is rescued
Villanelle kills her new handler
Villanelle confronts Constantin

Turning Point:

Parul: Eve discovers that Carolyn met Villanelle in prison

Melanie: I think it’s when Carolyn tells Eve she can take her job away from her.

Parul: I think Mel’s Turning Point is a Progressive Complication.

Previous Episode

08: Shapeshifters - Killing Eve Ep6

Episode Summary:

Set in Russia
Villanelle goes to prison to kill Nadia
Eve and Carolyn travel to Moscow to interrogate Nadia
They meet Constantin and Vladimir - two Russian intelligence agents and former boyfriends of Carolyn
One interview with Nadia granted - but Constantin interrupts before Nadia tells Eve and Carolyn about Constantin. Nadia gives them information about Anna.
Villanelle kills Nadia and is thrown in the hole. No one comes to get her out.
Eve uses Carolyn’s information to trade with Vladimir for his help to get Nadia out of prison

Inciting Incident

Melanie: Team finds out Nadia is alive in a Russian prison and she might be a lead to information on the 12.

Parul: Both Eve and Villanelle are protagonists. That being said, Villanelle’s Inciting Incident might be that she is assigned to kill Nadia to prevent Eve from talking to her. And we are in Villanelle’s corner for the first time, we don’t want her to die.

Melanie: What is really interesting is that Villanelle goes to a Russian prison, and we really want to see what a Russian prison looks like. And Eve is really a kind of side story.

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Next Episode

E10: The Middle Build of Killing Eve

As a review, if you follow the Story Grid Method, most stories are made up of the following elements:

3 Acts - Beginning Hook, Middle Build, Ending Payoff
There are 5 Commandments in each scene, episode, and act that includes the Inciting Incident, the Turning Point, the Crisis Question, the Climax, and the Resolution
There are 15 Core Scenes that turn on the Global Value; 5 Core Scenes in each Act, and these Core Scenes are the 5 Commandments of the Act

Stated more simply: the 5 Commandments of the Middle build are the 5 Core Scenes of Act 2 which are the Inciting Incident, the Turning Point, the Crisis, the Climax, and the Resolution that turn on the Global Value.
The Middle Build of Killing Eve occurs between episodes 3 through 7 and the Genre is Thriller, so the Global Value is Life and Death. Therefore, all 5 Core Scenes of the Middle Build should turn on Life and Death.

It is important to note that if the 15 Core Scenes of your story do not turn on your Global Value, then you may not be writing a story in your chosen genre or you might have to tweak some scenes to make the Core Scenes turn on the Global Value. Something to consider when editing and writing stories.

Inciting Incident

Melanie:

The Inciting Incident if when Bill is killed, Eve realizes for the first time that her job is dangerous and that she could die and that her decisions have consequences. So, obviously, this scene does turn on the Global Value of life and death that we expect from a Thriller.

For Eve’s Worldview shift, this is the part of the series when Eve realizes that her actions have consequences: she goes from ignorance to wisdom, the hard way.

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